Lectures

Lectures take place on Wednesdays from 19:00 till 21:00. All lectures are held in the building of the Faculty of Arts, Auditorium  3 - Suzanne Lilar, ground floor, Blandijnberg 2, 9000 Gent.

• 15 February 2023: Basic introduction to the Dutch language by Jacques Van Keymeulen (Faculty of Arts)
• 22 February 2023: The Urban Roots of Medieval Europe: the contribution of the cities of Flanders by Marc Boone (Faculty of Arts)
• 1 March 2023: Geography and landscapes of the Low Countries by Marc Antrop (Faculty of Sciences)
• 8 March 2023: Dutch Literature and the Visual Arts since 1600 by Lars Bernaerts and Kornee van der Haven (Faculty of Arts)
• 15 March 2023: Rubens or Rembrandt? Art, Politics and the Roots of Belgium and the Netherlands in the 16th and 17th centuries by Jonas Roelens (Faculty of Arts)
• 22 March 2023: The Media in Flanders by Maxine De Wulf Helskens (Faculty of Political and Social Sciences)
• 29 March 2023: The Belgian federation: origins, functioning, prospects by Maxime Vandenberghe (Faculty of Political and Social Sciences)
• 19 April 2023: Polyphonic Music in the Low Countries by Francis Maes (Faculty of Arts)
• 26 April 2023: The position of Flanders in the Belgian Economy by Marc De Clercq (Faculty of Economics and Business Administration
• 3 May 2023: Ending life and procreating in Flanders and in the Netherlands by Freddy Mortier (Faculty of Arts)
• 10 May 2023: From the Belgian Colonial War to the murder of Patrice Lumumba, 1876-1961, by Mathieu Zana Etambala (Faculty of Arts)
• 17 May 2023: Molenbeek (in Brussels): a Low Countries Large City Multicultural Laboratory by Johan Leman (Faculty of Social Sciences, KULeuven) 

Excursions

-> 16 March 2023: Guided visit to the Ghent City Museum (STAM)

-> 26 April 2023: Belgian gastronomy. The theory and practice.